All Architects articles – Page 187
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The construction strategy: Together at last?
The government and the construction industry. It’s been a long, love-hate affair but the new construction strategy is an offer to try to work things out
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Engineering Britain's biggest retained facade: Going to great lengths
This was once a dilapidated hotel that just so happened to be on prime land overlooking Hyde Park. To convert it into luxury flats the whole thing had to be demolished and rebuilt – apart from the facade. Building talks to the team responsible for the largest ever retained Victorian ...
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Architects against anti-social behaviour
Public sector insurer Zurich Municipal has released a series of design guides aimed at cutting the cost of crime and anti-social behaviour in the education sector.
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Design Council names Paul Finch deputy chair
Little room for former Cabe commissioners as merged body announces board
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Opik to present RIBA charity auction: 24 June
Fundraiser to help architecture students facing hardship will be held in June
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De-coding BIM
Building information modelling could be applied to save time and money on every government project within five years. But few people are using it and many don’t even know it exists. Here are seven key ways BIM will affect you and your work
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Hands up if you can cut 20%
We’re all more or less signed up to the government’s target of cutting 20% off costs in the next four years (or so we say). But how we do it is still the subject of fierce debate. Building asked three construction professionals what they would do
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BIM could cost QSs £2k per person
Davis Langdon estimates that for QSs, the industry bill could reach £82m for training
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Architects required for Glasgow 2014 stadium design
Interested parties should submit expressions of interest before 17 June
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Buro Happold and NEX combine for Chelsea pavilion
Design of Chelsea Flower Show exhibit based on how plants grow
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CZWG and Holder Mathias unveil £70m Barnsley plan
Regeneration follows Will Alsop’s ’Tuscan hill-top’ vision
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Architects challenged to redesign the electricity pylon
Government and RIBA launch design competition to improve on 84-year old design
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BDP low carbon flats
BDP has revealed its design for a “very-low carbon” apartment building in Nanjing, China
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Hopkins leads the pack at RIBA awards
Hopkins’ velodrome among the winners at the 2011 RIBA awards
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Period drama: The Holburne Museum
Bathonians were up in arms when Eric Parry Architects sought to add a modern extension to an 18th century, grade I-listed building. But the architect won out and the Holburne Museum shouldn’t have anyone reaching for the smelling salts
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Liverpool council to build 'easy to convert' schools
Following James Review recommendations council is looking at ’airport terminal-style schools’
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CAD images: Where have all the humans gone?
There’s nothing so seductive as a CAD image of your dream project, computer-generated visualisations of how we want the world to be. Trouble is, they’re divorced from reality
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Brit makes St Petersburg cultural quarter shortlist
David Chipperfield is on a shortlist of four for the prestigious design competition
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Zaha Hadid makes rich list with £37m fortune
Architect appears on list for first time but wealth dwarved by other construction multi-millionaires